Supporting client outcomes during market volatility

Perpetual head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood has warned that passive investors banking on a repeat of the past 15 years of very strong global equity returns may be sleepwalking into a decade of disappointment.

Former Qualitas duo Manuel Paraskevos and Ethan Dixon have opened Poinsettia Capital, a Brisbane-based advisory and funds management firm that provides tailored debt and equity finance for mid-market residential projects in South-East Queensland.

Labor has secured 93 of the 150 seats up for grabs in the House of Representatives, with a few still in doubt - more than Kevin Rudd or Bob Hawke claimed in their maiden election victories - but does this historic win over the Coalition spell bad news for Australia's stock market?

The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History, however, suggests that this dominance is bound to ...